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Cornel West: Obama is a war criminal like Bush and Nixon

“Your thoughts on this so-called license to kill?” Smiley asked West.

“The chickens are coming home to roost,” West replied. “We’ve been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people, it’s been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.”

“I think we have to be very honest, let us not be deceived — Nixon, Bush, Obama, they’re war criminals,” West continued. “They have killed innocent people in the name of the struggle for freedom, but they’re suspending the law, very much like Wall Street criminals. The law is suspended for them, but the law applies for the rest of us.”

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While I don’t think Bush, Cheney, or Obama are war criminals, if you believe that Bush and Cheney are, you MUST believe that Obama is. Otherwise, you’re just a hyper-partisan blowhard who doesn’t even believe the nonsense you spout.

It’s interesting that the honeymoon is over. Now that Obama has been safely elected for a second term, they no longer feel constrained from criticizing him.

Steven Den Beste on February 15, 2013 at 1:59 PM

There always has been the true left and the ‘situational left’ which is only outrageously outraged as long as it suits their current political goals.

Joan Baez was wildly popular among liberals when she was singing protest songs against Nixon (and before that, LBJ) over Vietnam, but widely ignored when she spoke out in the late 1970s about the Khmer Rouge’s mass murders in Cambodia because it didn’t fit the narrative. Same with Cindy Sheehan — she was annotated with Absolute Moral Authority by Maureen Dowd in 2005 and held up as the only true voice of the parents of Iraq war casualties for the next two years … until the Democrats took control of Congress and Cindy began attacking Nancy Pelosi for not completely cutting funding for military operations in the Gulf. Then she went back to the status she had before ’05 of being the annoying kooky woman the media and politicians told security guard to keep from getting past the main entrance in the lobby.

West may be able to get by a few more security guards than Cindy, but as long as he keeps saying stuff like this while Obama or any other Democrat is in office, his political clout will continue to slide towards ‘crank’ status among those liberals who adjust their moral outrage based on which party controls the White House.

I do not get these people. They would rather have a person go on and kill hundreds of people yet you can not “risk” taking that person out if there is a possibility of hurting/killing more than the target.

See , this is why terrorists and stuff put stuff on apartment complexes that are full of people, or on the school playgrounds where kids play daily… they know there are too many people like this that win the public opinion battle.